The World According to Ben Stein: Wit, Wisdom & Even More Wit

The wit and wisdom and more wit from America's best-known economist, personal finance expert, actor, writer and political commentator.

Ben Stein, a polymath famous and beloved for his iconic movie and tv roles, bestselling books and humorous writings and tv commentary, shares his views on love, money, politics and living the American Dream and how you too can lead an informed, politically sane, healthy, wealthy, and happy life full of love and family.

In his keen, perceptive, informative and always entertaining style, Stein shares his views on a life well lived and lessons learned, how to make the most of your money, prioritizing your family, and explores American culture and politics, the humorous, the heartbreaking, and the maddening.

In this collection of the best of Ben Stein's Newsmax DREEMZ columns, Stein shares his passionate opinions, stark warnings and thoughtful, sensitive musings on such varied topics as:

• Love, Humor, Forgiveness, and Dogs


• Why Mistakes Happen When Government Gets Too Big


• The Miracles of Modern Life


• Why All's Fair in Politics and War


• Life's Cornerstones and Curveballs


• Why Anger and Hate Have No Place in Public Life


• The Economics of Love


• Why We Owe a Debt of Gratitude to Servicemen and Women


• TV's Brave New Reality: A United America


• Why the Government is Not Responsible for Your Success - You Are


• America: Why I Cherish this Unbelievable Gift


• And why "These Are Not the End Times"

The World According to Ben Stein offers honest insights, humor and hope from one of the great humorists on political economy and how life works in this nation.

Ben Stein (Los Angeles, CA) is the most famous economics teacher in America. His comedic role as the droning economics teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off is by far the most widely viewed scene of economics teaching in economics history and has been ranked as one of the fifty most famous scenes in movie history. But in real life, Ben Stein is a powerful thinkers on economics, politics, education and history and motivation - and like his father, Herbert Stein, considered one of the great humorists on political economy and how life works in this nation. Stein in real life has a bachelor's with honors in economics from Columbia, studied econ at the graduate level at Yale, is a graduate of Yale Law School ( valedictorian of his class by election of his classmates in 1970), and has as diverse a resume as any man in America. His background includes...poverty lawyer for poor people in New Haven, trade regulation lawyer for the FTC, speech writer for Presidents Nixon and Ford, columnist and editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal, columnist for The New York Times, teacher about law and economics at UC, Santa Cruz and Pepperdine. Stein was the 2009 winner of the Malcolm Forbes Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism.

Stein was the co-host, along with Jimmy Kimmel, of the pathbreaking Comedy Central game show, Win Ben Stein's Money, which won seven Emmys, including ones for Ben and Jimmy for best game show host(s); surely making him the only well-known economist to win an Emmy. Presently, he writes a column for The American Spectator and for NewsMax, and is a regular commentator on Fox News, CNN, Newsmax TV and on CBS Sunday Morning. Stein has written or co-written roughly 30 books, mostly about investing, many of them New York Times bestsellers, including: The Capitalist Code: It Can Save Your Life and Make You Very Rich.

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The author lives and works in the Los Angeles metro area.